A video clip that recently spread on social media showed the Palestinian child Nour El-Din sitting in a street in Gaza and offering his toys for sale after he was displaced from his home and could not find a place to play due to the destruction caused by the war that Israel is waging against him. Gaza strip About 111 days ago.
The child said in a video clip documented by media personality Maryam Abu Daqqa on her Instagram page yesterday, Wednesday, January 24, 2024, “I was displaced from my home and I cannot find a place to play in. That’s why I sell my toys.” “.
The harsh war conditions force Gazan children to search for work to help their displaced families live in light of the deteriorating economic conditions in the Gaza Strip as the war continues.
On January 8, 2024, Palestinian journalist Abdullah Obaid published a video clip of a girl named Safaa selling hibiscus to help her family, hoping for the war to stop.
On December 23, the child “Firas,” who was displaced from the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza, appeared Rafah In the south, in a special video clip on the island, he wanders among the displaced people’s tents to sell tea and coffee.
The clip documented the child Firas preparing hot drinks with simple tools over a fire and walking around a shelter school in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, to sell to the displaced.
The child, who bears responsibility for his family despite his young age, said, “I sell tea and coffee to help my brothers. We were displaced from Olive City without clothes or anything, and with the money I earn I buy things for my brothers and give them their allowance.”
Firas talked about the difficulties he faces, such as lighting a fire and obtaining firewood, which is already expensive in light of the lack of cooking gas, noting that he prepares everything over the fire.
At the end of 2023 and the beginning of the new year, Palestinian journalist Muhannad Al-Khatib published on his page on the Instagram platform a number of scenes documenting the nature of the difficult life that children live in the displacement camps in the southern Gaza Strip.
Among these clips is a scene of a Palestinian child holding an empty plastic bottle and placing it under a water pipe with a hole in it so that he can catch the water that falls from the pipe to fill his bottle. Al-Khatib commented on the scene, saying: “Behind every child in Gaza is a story that gave him no choice but to be strong and struggle for… “His brothers.”
On December 18, a video clip spread of two Palestinian children selling salt in order to secure a living and support their families, inside the displacement camps in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Children represent 47% of the Gaza Strip’s population of 2.2 million people, and since October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, which, as of Wednesday, left “25,700 martyrs and 63,740 injured, most of them children and women,” according to the Palestinian authorities, It caused “massive destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” according to the United Nations